CEPSA Quimica resumed phenol/acetone production

April 11/2011

(ICIS) -- CEPSA Quimica
has resumed phenol/acetone production on line No 2 in Huelva, Spain, following a
five-week planned outage, a company source said on Friday. “Production started
early week 14 as planned. We have been building up slowly but we are now running
fully,” the source confirmed. Line No 2 has the capacity to produce 200 KTa of
phenol and 124 KTa of acetone.

CEPSA added that it will be shutting down line No 3 for at least two
weeks in May for planned maintenance.

Line No 3 is CEPSA Quimica’s largest and newest line. It has the capacity
to produce 250 KTa of phenol and 155 KTa of acetone.

The company officially decommissioned line No 1 at Huelva earlier this
year. It had been idled since the end of 2008 as a result of the global economic
downturn.